"This book draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida, and world-systems theory to address the institutionalized construct of 'world literature' from its origins in Goethe and Marx to the present day. It argues that through its history, this construct has served to incorporate...

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1. Verfasser:	Mattar, Karim, 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Schlagworte:	Middle Eastern fiction > History and criticism. Orientalism in literature. Oriental literature > History and criticism. Littérature orientale > Histoire et critique. Orientalisme dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern Middle Eastern fiction Oriental literature Orientalism in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	"This book draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida, and world-systems theory to address the institutionalized construct of 'world literature' from its origins in Goethe and Marx to the present day. It argues that through its history, this construct has served to incorporate if not annul local literatures and the concept of 'local literature' itself, and to universalize the novel, the lyric poem, and the stage play as the only literary forms appropriate to modernity. It demonstrates this thesis through a comparative reading of the reinscription of the classical Arabic-Islamic concept of 'adab' as 'literature' in the modern, European sense in Egypt, Turkey, and Iran in the 19th to mid-20th centuries. It then turns to the Middle Eastern novel in the global contexts of its production, translation, circulation, and reception today. Through new readings of novels and other literary works by Abdelrahman Munif, Naguib Mahfouz, Orhan Pamuk, Azar Nafisi, Yasmin Crowther, and Marjane Satrapi, and with reference to landmarks of Middle Eastern and world literary history ranging from the Mu'allaqāt and Alf Layla wa Layla to Don Quixote, it argues that these texts--like 'world literature' itself--are constitutively haunted by specters of the literary forms and traditions, of the life-worlds that they expressed, cast aside by modernity. In the case of the Middle Eastern novel, it is adab and all that it encompassed in the classical Arab-Islamic world that is suppressed or othered, but that spectral, yet returns in new, genuinely worldly constellations of form."--
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xx, 340 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-321) and index.
ISBN:	9781474467063 1474467067 9781474467056 1474467059